Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-14


that struck hack the weapons of tempta-
ton from the heart of Christ We may all
now wear; for Jesus comes and says: 81
have been tempted, and know what it is
to be tempted. Take this robe that de-
Tended Me and wear it for yourselves. l
will see you through all trials, and will
see you
THRoUGH ALL TEMPTATION.
'But, 'hsays Satan still further to Jesus,
"come and l will show you something
worth looking at" and after a half.day's
Journey they came to Jerusalem and to the
top of the temple. Just as one might 90
up in the tower OF Antwerp and look off
upon Belgium, as Satan brought Christ to
the top Of the Temple. Some people at q
great height feel dizzy, and have strange
disposition to jump; so Satan
comes to Christ with powerful tempta-
tiOn in that very crisis. Standing there 1t
the top Of the Temple they look off. A
magnificent reach Of country. Grain fields,
vineyards, olive groves, forests and streams,
cattle in the valley, flocks on the hills, and
villages, and cities, and realms. Now" "
says Satao, ''I'l make bargain. Just
lump off. l know it is a great way from
the top of the Temple to the valley, but if
yon are divine you can fly. Jump of. 1t
won't hurt you. Angels will catch you.
Your Father will hold you. Besides, I'll
make you large present, If you will. I'll
give you Asia Minor, I'll give you India,
I'll give you China, I'll give you ETHIOPIA,
I'll give you Italy, I'll give you Spain, I'll
give you Germany, I'll give you Britain,
I'll give you all the world" What q
humiliation it must have been.
Go tomorrow morning and get in an
alteration with some wretch crawling
UP FROM A GIN-CELLAR
in the Fourth ward, New York. "No,"
YOU saw, 81 would not bemean myself by
getting in such contest" Then think Of
what the King of heaven and earth endur-
ed when he came down and fought that
great wretch of heaven and hell, and fought
him in the wilderness and on the top of
the Temple. But bless God that in that
triumph over temptation Christ gives us
the assurance that we also shall triumph.
Having Himself been tempted, He is able
to succor all those who are tempted.
IN VIOLENT STORM
at sea the mate told boy-for the rigging
had become entangled in the mast-tO go
up and right it, 4 gentleman standing on
the deck said: Don't send that boy up;
he will he dashed to death" The mate
said: IL know what | am about" The
boy raised his hat in recognition of the
order, and then rose, hand over hand, and
went to work; and rs he swung in the
storm the passengers wrung their hands
and expected to see him fall. The
work done, he came down in safety, and
Christian man said to him: why did
YOU 20 down in the f0rcaStle before you
went up?" "Ah," said the boy, 81 went
down to pray. My mother always taught
me before l undertook anything great to
pray" ''What is that you have in your
vest?'' said the man. TO- thai is the New
Testament he said, II thought | would
carry it with me if really did 30 over
board" How well that hoy was protected!
| care not how great the height or vast the
depth. with Christ within us. and Christ
beneath us, and Christ above us, and Christ
all around us, nothing shall beiall us i'll the
way OF harm. Christ himself, having been
in the tempest, will deliver all those who
put their trust in him. Blessed be his
glorious name forever.
THE THIRD INsTALLMENT
paid for our redemption was the Saviour's
Sham trial. I call It a sham trial-there
has never been anything so indecent or I'M
fair in the TombS Court of New York rs
was witnessed at the trial of Christ. Why,
they hustled Him into the court room ut
two o'clock in the morning. They gave
Him no time for counsel. They gave Him
no opportunity for subpOcnaing witnesses.
The ru1ians who were wandering around
through the midnight, of course they saw
the arrest and went into the courtroom.
But Jesus's friends were sober men, were
respectable men, and at that hour, two
O'Clock in the morning. of course they
were at home asleep. Consequently Christ
entered the court room with the rutiians.
oh, look at Him!
NO ONE To SPEAK A WORD FOR HIM.
lift the lantern until can look into His
face, and as my heart beats in sympathy
for this, the best friend the world ever had,
Himself now utterly friendleSs, an officer
the court room comes up and smltes HIN
in the mouth, and | see the blood stealing
from gum and lip. Oh, it was farce OF a
trial. lasting only perhaps an hour, and
then the Judge rises for the sentence! IL
is against the law to give sentence unless
there has been an adjournment of the court
between condemnation and sentence; but
what cares this Judge for the law? The
man has no friends-let him die, says the
Judge, and the ruifians outside the rail cry:
aha. aha! that's what We want-His
blood. Hand him out here to US. Away
with Him. away with Him. oh, l bless
God that amid all the injustice that
NAV be inflicted upon us
in this world we have divine
sympathizer. The world cannot lie about
you nor abuse yon as much rs they did
Christ, and Jesus stands to-day i'll every
court room, in every home, in every store,
and says: Courage By all my hours OF
maltreatment and abuse, | will protect
those who are trampled on" And when
Christ forgets that two o'clock morning
scene, and the stroke of the ruffian on the
mouth, and the bowling of the unwashed
crowd. then he will forget You and me in
the iniustices of lite that may be inflicted
upon US.
Some of
YOU WANT nELIvERASCE
from your troubles. God knows you have
enough of them. Physical troubles; do
mestic troubles; spiritual troubles; tinan-
cial troubles. You have been gathering
them up, some perhaps for five, or six, or
seven years, and you have divided them
into two classes: Those you can talk about
and those you cannot talk about; and as
those griefs are the most grinding and de-
pressing which You cannot mention, you
get coincidence for the things you can
speak of, while you get no coincidence for
the things that you cannot In your
school days You learned how to bound the
States and could tell what rivers and lakes
and mountains ran through them. If you
were ased to-day to bound yOur worldly
estate yOu would say it is bounded on the
north by trouble, and on the south by
trouble, and on the east by trouble, and
on the west by trouble, while rivers OF
tears and lakes of woe, and mountains OF
,liSaSter run thrnuph IL What are YOU